Raymond Kurzweil was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens.
Kurzweil was 12 years old when he became fascinated by the possibilities of the computer. An uncle who worked as an engineer at Bell Labs introduced him to the basics of computer science and arranged for him to work with a computer owned by New York University.
By age 15, he had written his first computer program.
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Kurzweil also received a prize from Westinghouse Talent Search and was invited to the White House to be congratulated by President Lyndon B.
By the 1980s, electronic synthesizers, once limited to use in avant-garde electronic music, had come to play a prominent role in popular music as well.
Ray kurzweil
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1948
Raymond Kurzweil was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens.
Kurzweil was 12 years old when he became fascinated by the possibilities of the computer. An uncle who worked as an engineer at Bell Labs introduced him to the basics of computer science and arranged for him to work with a computer owned by New York University.
By age 15, he had written his first computer program.
Kurzweil also received a prize from Westinghouse Talent Search and was invited to the White House to be congratulated by President Lyndon B.
By the 1980s, electronic synthesizers, once limited to use in avant-garde electronic music, had come to play a prominent role in popular music as well.